District of Mansigne are the Wants and Demands for Taxation by the Third Estate

To verify that the First and Second estates have no purpose in the French society. The source states that the Third Estate has the largest amount of people, but the least amount of freedoms. It demands that there must be a change for the Third Estate. The source implies: “What is the Third Estate? Everything.” “What has it been until now in the political border? Nothing.” “What does it ask? To become something.” The source is strongly supportive to nationalism as it is a work of patriotism. It criticizes the monarchy for being an unequal monarchy. The source explains that the majority of people are from the Third Estate, yet it does not have the freedoms that other people do. But the Third Estate can fight

One might ask if the 1789 document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen addressed the needs of all the people of the third estate like its writers claimed was its purpose. The National Assembly of France, which consisted of mostly wealthy bourgeoisies men, wrote the declaration. The remaining members of the third estate, which included the urban poor sans-culottes, therefore did not have much say in what was being addressed to the public. Enlightenment ideas such as popular sovereignty and civic equality, advocated by both the bourgeoisies and sans-culottes, is apparent in the statement. Furthermore, the National Assembly of France addressed the sans-culottes’ need of equality, employment based on talent, and desire for a political reorganization.

As early as 1755 in Madame Geoffrin’s salon, Enlightenment thinkers including Rousseau and Voltaire assemble with elegantly dressed men, presumably the Bourgeois (Doc 5). Hearty reds reflect the exchange of conceptions to the literate Third Estate, listening to their ideas about how an uncensored democracy would function without an absolute monarch. Without effective representation in the French political system, this interaction results in thousands of frustrated commoners craving a system free from excessive labor. On August 26, 1789, King Louis XVI declares in a letter that “the King of France must conserve those privileges for [the clergy and nobility]” (Doc 4), with those luxuries being well-deserved. He refers to the rioting cries of the prevalent people protesting for lower taxes as plundering as if his people would never comprehend the struggles the first two estates experience. With the majority of French land and influence, the rabble still reimburses their habits and fills their banquets. With the slightest amount of Enlightenment ideas from the Bourgeois, peasants can understand what a people-oriented government is akin to, pushing the rift between the king and the genuine French

After reading documents 8 and 9, one can infer that the third estate had no power when it came to making laws or to enforce them even though they made up the majority of the population. The first and second estate’s lack of empathy towards the commoners of France led them to consider overthrowing the government to put France in a better financial state. Document 5 shows how the majority of France was ready to overthrow the government due to the effects of the monarch’s rule. The third estate’s collective attitude sparked some of the events of the revolution. For example, documents 11 and 16 are paintings portraying the Tennis Court Oath and the Women’s March to Versailles.

In document 3 and document 4 both show why the French Revolution started. Document 3 states “In the south of France there is a tallie… Lands held by the nobility are taxed very little. Lands held by commoners are taxed very heavilty…”. This proves that the third estate, commoners, were taxed greatly. Also, in document 3 it states “The poor people seem very poor indeed. The children are terribly ragged.” and “The tailless and feudal dues [rents owed to the landlords] are crushing us.” both state that the commoners are barely able to get by with all of the taxes that they are required to pay. In document 4 the image shows men from the first estate and the second estate standing on a rock while a man from the third estate is lying on the ground looking like he is in pain. This is showing that the government is strong like a rock, but it is not strong enough to hold the third estates man too. Conc. Sent.

In the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, France was undergoing major changes. Before the French Revolution, France was experiencing political, social and economic problems. During this time period France was unstable, and wasn’t able to keep up with the new arising Enlightenment ideas. In addition, there were high taxes, unequal power distribution and social inequality. The French Revolution not only impacted the citizens of France, but people from other countries as well.

The citizens of the 3rd estate and some citizens in the 2nd estate in France during 1789, were not happy at all. They were getting heavily taxed by Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and the Catholic Church. When they didn’t have the money to pay the taxes that was forced upon them. After all of the hard work they put in to growing crops, the crops were taken

During the 1700s, France’s government was run by a three system estate system. The First Estate was made up by the powerful clergy members, while the Second Estate was made with nobles. Peasants and working men made the Third Estate, also the largest estate. In this large estate there was a little class named the Bourgeoisie was a part of the Third Estate. Though the Bourgeoisie was highly educated and always had stable professions, they were not set aside from the peasants. The Third Estate was treated very poorly during the 1700s. Life was not suitable for the working class. The mistreatment and inequality led to the French Revolution. Inequality during this time period meant that things were not the same throughout each class. Unequal power between the estates, abuse of the Third Estate, and the taxes and price raises were the three reasons that outweighed the many political, social, and economic factors that led to the French Revolution.

According to document two, it illustrates the relationship between population and ownership of land in 1789, which was held during the Old Regime time. People were divided into three estates. The first estate was the lowest, the second estate was in the middle, and the third estate was the highest. This means that the third estate had the largest percent of the total population, land owned, and income paid in taxes between all three estates, but it isn’t a lot compared to other areas of land. These social inequalities were causing the people to want to change by the first and second estate privileges they had and the struggles that the third estate had as

The establishment of the National Assembly that integrated different classes of people into one government signifies the growing public voice in political arena as citizens urged an end to hunger and unfair taxation system. Ever since King XVI summoned the Estates General to tackle the problems of food shortage and economic crisis, the Third Estate, who represented every French except the clergies and the nobles, has been constantly demanding for more voting rights to make people’s hardship known to the king and the other two estates. They thus assembled lists of grievances from citizens throughout France which called for a limit to

The French Revolution was a period of time from 1789 to 1799 in France where there was political instability. It officially began on the 14th of July, 1789, when the Bastille, which was a symbol of the King’s harsh policies, was stormed. The King, Louis XVI, the Queen, Marie-Antoinette and about 40,000 people were all brutally murdered. But there was also a positive side, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was formally adopted on August 1789 and feudalism was abolished. This essay will address the issues of the three estates system, food shortages and the fiscal crisis. It will also be argued that the most significant cause of the French Revolution was the social inequality that stemmed from the three estates system.

The nobility of the Kingdom of France has been evaluated by various scholars of history. There is something to be said, however, for those who chronicled their impressions while living them in the 17th and 18th centuries. The excerpts of Charles Loyseau’s A Treatise on Orders, written in 1610, and Isabelle de Charriere’s The Nobleman, written in 1763 provide two very different glimpses on the French nobility from differing time periods. From these two accounts, it is clear that there was a marked shift in the way some viewed the nobility and their role in the operation of the French state. While Loyseau praises the nobility nearly wholeheartedly,

The beginning of the French Revolution saw the continuing rise of enlightened thoughts from philosophes and other countries such as England and America. From these ideas emerged the 1789 document titled Rights of Man and Citizen drawn up by the National Assembly of France. The National Assembly of France consisted mainly of bourgeoisies and was an assembly representative of the third estate of France. Others within the third estate were the peasants and sans-culottes. The question is then, did this document serve as representation for the demands of all the people in the third estate, specifically the sans-culottes minority? Yes, because the document appears to suggest popular sovereignty and civic equality; however, it does not address the

The highest group was the First Estate, this was the clergy, the Second Estate was the nobility and the Third Estate was everyone else. The Third Estate included; peasants, merchants, commoners, and anybody that didn't have a family generation of nobility. In the document it says “the population of the third estate was highest and they owned the most land because they did all the works. They also had to pay every cent of the tax money while the Second and Third payed not one penny” (document 2). This type of class division was extremely unfair to the Third Estate, a woman writes “the taxes and laws are crushing us” (document 3). This shows two things, one is that she is in the 3rd estate because she pays taxes and two is that this is not only her that feels this way. So many other people in the society feel this way too. After the death of King, Napoleon was the power. In the document it says “Terror used to execute enemies of the regime” (document 4). This shows that the people feared leaving their homes because they didn't want to be killed by Napoleon. When Napoleon went around killing the “enemies” this was a time called The Reign of Terror. In the document it says “We feared to go out,in case,without realizing it, we committed some transgression...we hardly spoke to anyone, for there were spies everywhere,and we jumped at each knock at the door, fearing arrest” (document 6). So this really did

And he relies, everything. He argued that because the third estate carries out all the labor required to maintain France and that the third estate makes up a complete nation. He calls the first and second estates a form a cancer as they do not add anything to the civil order like the third estate does, he later states “The noble order is no less foreign amongst up by reason of its civil and public prerogatives.” He knows that the first and second estate do not pay taxes of any kind, yet they are the main beneficiaries from the king. He calls the first and second estates a cancer that must be removed from a society so that the society may remain healthy, “It is impossible to say what place the two privileged orders ought to occupy in the social order…what place one wishes to assign to a malignant tumor.” The Divine Chain of Being which gave a natural order to the world was now called into question and rejected entirely because of the French Revolution.